Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-29

About $22, ,000, 900 worth of patent medi-
cine is consumed each year in this country.
And yet we have to have boards of health.
Connecticut is not the most uncomfort
able State to live in. The Michigan legisla-
ture adjourns to day after a session lasting
nearly six months.
A new market for Russian petroleum has
been discovered. A company consisting of
several owners of large camel caravans has
been formed at Baku for the purpose of in
PRODUCING petroleum into Persia by overland
route via Mugan. Several caravans have
been sent, but on each occasion the oil failed
to reach its destination, being rapidly bought
up at Mugan, and in consequence it is now
intended to increase the size of the caravans
to 500 camels each. Generally speaking,
Russian manufactures have latterly found a
ready market in Persia, especially since the
Russian manufacturers have complied with
the local demand by producing special wide
cotton prints for Persia.
One of the most interesting and ingenious
explanations of the recent furry" in Wall
street is made by the Brooklyn Citizen, which
says A few months ago experiments with
the Daft electric motor system brought its
availability to demonstration. 1t was then
promptly removed from sight and stories of
its failure were circulated in order to put it
as quickly out of the public mind as possible.
The great advantage of the electric engine is
economy, and it is believed that its adoption
will reduce the running expenses of the ele-
vated railroads fully 40 per cent. This is the
key to the situation last week. The trium-
| virate knocked down the Manhattan to 115
with view to securing more of it, prelimi.
| nary to the substitution of electricity for
steam as motor and the consequent jump
| to 20O
At the recent English Cooperative con-
gress the advocates of co operation were moi
greatly cheered by the reports made. The
| most enthusiastic members of the congress
| could do nothing more than report the
very moderate success which has been at
| tained by CO operative manufactures anc
other forms of productive industry" Ths
| significant fact was also brought out that ths
| cooperative societies which have gained tht
| greatest success are those which have in
| vested their funds in industries apart from
those in which they are themselves engaged
and industries, too, which are not conducted
on the cooperative plan. When this is dom
the co-operators become themselves ordinar,
employers of labor and derive their prosperit,
from the usual wages system. In othe
words, the cooperative principle is abandon
ed and the society is simply an association
of small capitalists.
The investigation which has recently beel
made under the authority of the Englisl
government into the cost and durability o
great pieces of ordnance had interesting re
suits. Tie commission came to the con
clusion that there is a great deal left to b
desired in the present system of construction
and in the utility of these great guns whel
made. Thus, under the most favorable cir
cumstances, it costs in England to build
110-ton gun 100000. Each time this piec
is fired with an ordinary charge and 1, ZOO
pound shot, a further expense of $3.50 is in
volved but, what is still more serious
matter, after about $50 rounds have beel
fired the gun has to be sent back to tn
workshop, and the entire inner surface re
lined with steel-a work necessitating no
only a large expenditure of money, but de
priying the country of the use of the gul
while undergoing these repairs.
The color-line incident which occurred
the other day on the Georgia fast express
was not very encouraging. The train hae
Just pnlled out of Atlanta. Noticing two
well-dressed negroes sitting in the frst-clas'
coach reserved for white folks, the conductor
asked them to go into the car (also frs
class) provided by the company for blacl
folks. They replied that they were from
Boston, and that they had no idea of NOV
ing. He repeated his request, warning then
that trouble would come of their obstinacy
but didn't attempt to put them out b.
force, as he feared a lawsuit. Then tw'
gentlemen advised them to go into the 9th
er car as the conductor had asked them to
but without effect. At the next station
white passenger got off. went to the teie
graph Office and sent dispatch to Conyers
stating the facts and asking that part
''meet the train and dispose of the negroes.
When the train arrived there company c
young men, armed with pistols, entered tn
car, declaring their purpose to "make tn
niggers know their place" And they drov
them into the negro coach.